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by Frank D. Schubert
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
The central problem of philosophy is the problem of certainty. What does it mean to be sure? Are there ideas beyond the possibility of error or refutation? What does it mean for a notion to be incorrigible? In this book, Frank D. Schubert squarely addresses the question of whether there is a single...
Applied Professional Ethics
A Developmental Approach for Use With Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 1993
This innovative book is written in an accessible, compact style that sets forth and explains a sound framework for professional ethics that readers can quickly put into practice in analyzing and writing about cases. Through a series of moral conflicts, it aims at improving the skills of moral reasoning and achieving moral development.
The Progressive Revolution
Liberal Fascism through the Ages, Vol. II: 2009 Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
The Progressive Revolution (Vols. I & II) chronicles both the historical significance and political deconstruction that the Progressive Revolution, or the Progressive Age, (circa 1870–present) has continuously perpetrated against society, even to this day. These volumes are a collection of selected...
Law and the Disordered
An Explanation in Mental Health, Law, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
In the 1970's, sociologists found that mentally disordered patients were routinely committed to state hospitals. By 2005, state hospital facilities had been emptied and, consequently, the patients for whom they cared for had been shuffled elsewhere by the system. Some of these patients were placed...
Federalist Tycoon
The Life and Times of Israel Thorndike
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A longtime Federalist legislator, Israel Thorndike was highly regarded within the radical circles that contemplated secession during the Jefferson administration and the War of 1812. After the war, Thorndike concluded his career as the leading venture capitalist financing the early Industrial Revolution....
Commercial Providence
The Secret Destiny of the American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
What is behind the success of America? Does America manifest its destiny by other means? Author Patrick Mendis explores unseen forces that have guided America to global dominance. He details how the creation of Madison's 'Universal Empire' through Hamilton's 'Federalism' realizes Jefferson's 'Empire...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This book examines public policy in physical education and sport and provides insights into practices of school curriculum and after-school sport programs from a global context. The authors reflect on the continuously shifting understanding of the field of physical education, articulate issues that...
Plundering the Egyptians
The Old Testament and Historical Criticism at Westminster Theological Seminary (1929-1998)
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Plundering the Egyptians focuses on the study of the Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary from 1929 to 1998. More specifically, it presents the lives and academic labors of Robert Dick Wilson (1929-1930), Edward Joseph Young (1936-1968), Raymond Bryan Dillard (1969-1993), and Tremper...
Beyond Duality and Polarization
Understanding Barack Obama and His Vital Act of Participation
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Beyond Duality and Polarization explores an experience-based learning model, the Phenomenal Patterning approach for personal transformation. Rather than traditional prescriptive learning, methods of personal discovery help us understand how the human mind actually functions. Dr. Koziey introduces...
The 2010 Elections in Florida
It's The Economy, Stupid!
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
This book places the 2010 elections in Florida in historical context and offers insight into and an explanation for the substantial gains made by the Republicans that year. This book provides narratives of gubernatorial, U.S. Senatorial, congressional, and state legislative campaigns along with empirical...
The Economic Process
An Instantaneous Non-Newtonian Picture
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
The more hoarding, the less investment. The more hoarding, the more inflation. The more hoarding, the more poverty. Carmine Gorga
War Wisdom
A Cross-Cultural Sampling
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
War Wisdom: A Cross Cultural Sampling is a unique combination of directory and analysis. It provides a relevant “universe” of quotations, together with their authors, about war from various ages and across a large number of societies including those found in China, Japan, Persia, Mongolia, Europe,...
Jamaica in the 21st Century
Revisiting the First Decade
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
When we forget, we run the risk if reinventing the wheel. Jamaica in the 21st Century: Revisiting the First Decade is a challenge and a reminder, lest we forget what ground has been covered in Jamaica’s social, political and religious life, particularly at the onset of the 21st century. Trawling...
Public-Private Partnerships
Success and Failure Factors for In-Transition Countries
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
Public-Private Partnerships aims to discover the conditions under which public private partnerships may provide a viable alternative to the provision of public services and infrastructures by the state, while achieving efficient, sustainable, peaceful, and equitable development in four transition...